From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 04:22:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565F91065672 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3BE8FC12 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:22:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7535509BF; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:22:16 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mb7vYwxNMBmS; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-auth.unixathome.org (smtp-auth.unixathome.org [10.4.7.7]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E01C2509B5 ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:22:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49700B2D.6000206@langille.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:21:01 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marat N.Afanasyev" References: <496FFADB.1080900@langille.org> <49700A66.800@ksu.ru> In-Reply-To: <49700A66.800@ksu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French Subject: Re: interrupt storm on MSI IXP600 based motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:22:17 -0000 Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> Pete French wrote: >>>>>>> kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq22:"; throttling >>>>>>> interrupt source >>> >>> .... >>> >>>> Opening the case, reading the m/b: >>>> >>>> K9A2 Platinum MSI >>> >>> >>> I hadnt been paying much attention to this thread, but just to let you >>> know that I also saw the same thing on this machine which has an MSI >>> 790FX >>> Platinum motherboard. It was also irq22, and I am also running amd64. >>> >>> In my case I simply disabled the onboard ethernet (which I wasnt using) >>> and the problem went away - but then I only saw the problem once, it >>> wasnt >>> a regular occurrance. If you have an alternative ether card you can drop >>> in thn you could try that... >> >> FYI, this box has always run off an ethernet card (fxp). The on-board >> NIC (re) was enabled. After disabling, the ethernet storms persisted. >> >> > trouble with onboard re(4) was resolved in -CURRENT and -STABLE, but > storms are not bound to ethernet only. storm may appear on any device. > if any device generates enough interrupts rate, storm will arrive. > > I've written about it in > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047644.html > > so far i can say that this issue is related on MSI IXP600 based > motherboards only. well, we should try to find out what we can do to > resolve it. Any committer that would like ssh access to this box in order to fix the problem, mail me your public-ssh key. :) -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/